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Schooley's Mountain? Is that in New Jersey?

No matter where we go, we are often asked that question! And it seems, that no matter how much someone knows about New Jersey, they don't seem to be familiar with Schooley's Mountain!

Aside from the plethora of medicinal botanicals located in this northwest corner of Morris County, Schooley's Mountain was known for it's healing streams and was a resort and spa location back in the early 1800's!

The chalybeate water on Schooley’s Mountain was known as some of the purest in the world and its healing powers led to Schooley’s Mountain being one of the first and finest resort areas in America.

Known alternately as chalybeate or ferruginous waters, or salts of iron, the mineral content of the Schooley's Mountain springs were acclaimed for their healing powers, first by the Lenape and then by European settlers.

Visitors seeking the waters' restorative powers first stayed on the site in tents. The history is somewhat cloudy, but from what I have been able to find, by 1815 the springs were well known to be the purest of their kind in the nation, drawing health-minded devotees from all over.

The Schooley’s Mountain resort area of Schooley’s Mountain rivaled Newport, RI and Saratoga Springs, NY and laid claim to such distinguished visitors as the Roosevelts, Astors and Ulysses S. Grant.

AND...

...We are proud to say that Schooley's Mountain is home to the Schooley’s Mountain General Store, and is one of the oldest continuously run general stores in America, and THE oldest in New Jersey.

"Le vrai voyage de la découverte consiste pas en cherchant de nouveaux paysages, mais en ayant de nouveaux yeux."“The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” ~Marcel Proust